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Intel Puts the Lock on Overclocking
Patrick Schmid writes "Intel included an overclocking-prevention mechanism into the 915/925 chipsets. So far, only Asus and Gigabyte know how to override it. You can start from the beginning or jump to where we discuss the overclocking lockout."
Rejoice!
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
Company restricts product in an artificial way, and other people find ways around it.
In other news, people breathe.
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Sorry, Intel, but you're keeping us from overclocking chips when you yourself have created some of the most inefficient (in terms of optimal performance and energy/heat useage) microprocessor of anyone this decade?
They've been hanging out with Microsoft too long.
That's like a car manufacturer saying, "We've installed a mechanism which will keep you from opening the hood if your intention is to upgrade the engine, because we want you leasing and buying new expensive cars very soon."
Uhhh, f*ck off.
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I DONT SEE WY WINTEL CARES IF I OVERCLOACK MY COMPUTAR! ITS MY WARRANTY I AM FEEDING TO TEH THERMAL DIETY!
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I don't see nothing wrong with that statement.
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I guess that might work. Moderators, please mod above post down (and thanks for the tip drsmack1).
I think the link between overclockers and Al-Queda is quite clear. There has been multiple contacts detailed and documented between the two but unfortunately for security reasons I cannot disclose them. So you'll just have to trust me on this one... if you overclock, we will invade you Mr. Terrorist Osama.
Try this:
Clearer?
...as if it was still useful at speeds above 3GHz.
Amen, brother. And let's not forget the whole RAM debacle. Some of those silly nay-sayers are still carping on about needing more than 640K of memory.
People just need to learn to run ONE application at a time, like any other normal, rational human being! Sheesh, the GUI business has ruined you kids.
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I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Oh, and my uptime IN WINDOWS is about a month.
No, your uptime is actually 24.2 days, it's just that the clock has been overclocked too...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
yeah pushing a system beyond its specs can't hurt.
{Cranks up his 5 GHz computer with 100,000 rpm hard drive}
inautable mumbling is heard over the roar of the computer
{computer explodes}
{police find greasy spot and lots of fried electronics}
It's amusing that Intel is afraid of using the number 666 (evidenced by the Pentium 3 667, and now the DDR667 memory). Not that I blame them, the fundies would probably call for a boycott of their products if they labeled them correctly in this circumstance.
Oh, and my uptime IN WINDOWS is about a month.
Going a month without doing Windows Update is not recommended
do() || do_not();
it blows up the user's box
What do you think this is, star trek? Maybe you can convince it of an illogical proposition, causing it to blow up in a huge cloud of smoke.
The amount of explosive material inside a standard CPU is quite small. Unless that's how they're stopping the overclockers, hmmm....
When someone mentions CPU overclocking it brings to mind Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap taking about his why his guitar amplifier volume knob goes from 0 to 11. "If it is set to 10, there is nowhere left to go, is there? 11 is for that extra push, over the cliff..."
an ill wind that blows no good
I would think there is more than a casual relationship between the two, perhaps just to prevent their "hotplates" from becoming open-flame barbeque pits.
{ - Generic Guy - }
And I doubt if it's true, AMD stock holders are smiling!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
These "dumb" people were just ahead of their time. They'll get the last laugh in 2015 when they attach a DRM-free GNU Molecular Assembler to their system and the "Add New Hardware Wizard" actually works! :)
"Hey, free computer equipment! Free diamonds! Free food! And free solar cells to power it all from the Sun! And a free molecular recycler! I am an island!"
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Power to the Peaceful